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Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1861-02-26

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j j j I J , I I I . . y ;.- -s yy SS. -ivv v t n VOLUME XXIV. MOimT VERNON, om is rninnn avxar nxAr unt, OIlea in TTooiyard'i Slock, Third Storj TERilS Tvi Dollar per siim, payable ia advance, $569 witbia six months; $3,00 after the expiration of the year. (jl01tt Dance Xfgrht, Tor Mr Heart Lies Under Tour Feet, Lore. .. The "sHewing lines, by Jeha treemaa Wallace, are aa BBBsieal aa ApoBo'e lute: "Ah, iWNt Kitty Neil, rise up from thai wheel, ' Tour aeat little feet will be weary from epinning; Come trip down with me to the sycamore tree, Half the pariah la there, and the dance ia begia- ning. --The ana ia gone down, hut the fall harreit moon Chinee aweetly and eool en the dew-whitened valley; i While all the air ring with the aoft, loring thing, Each little bird ainga in the green ahadd alley." With blush and a amile, Kitty roae ap, the while, Eer eye la the glass, as ahe hound her hair, glane- ing; - ' ' ' Tla hard to refute when a young lorer euee Bo ahe couldn't bat e house to ge off to the dano- "... iBg, Aad bow on the green the glad gronpa are eeen, Each gay-hearted lad with a laaa of hi a ehooaing- And Pit, without fail, leads oar aweet Kitty N oil-Somehow, when he asked, ahe ne'er thought of reTaalag. - Now, Felix Magee pnta hia pipes to hia knee, Aad with nourish ao free aeta eaeh eonple ia mo-. ' tion; .; "' " ! With a cheer and a bound the lada patter the ground, Xhe maid more around just like a wan a on the Cheeka bright aa the roae feet light aa the doe'a, Now coyly retiring, now boldly advancing fieareh the world all aroond, from the aky to the - groaaeV" . v -.S auch eight eaa be foaad aa an Iriih laaa dane-. ig! . ' Sweat Kate! who avoid view yoar bright eyee of deep blao, Beaming hamidly through their dark laahaa ao mildly, . . ' Tear falr-taraad arm, hearing breaat, rounded form, - Nor foel hia heart war m, and polaea throb wildly. Toaag Pat foel hia heart, aa he gaxea, depart 6abdaed by the amart of each painful yet aweet lore; The eight learea hia eye, aa he eriea with a aigh, 'Hamc It'gki, for my heart Ue iidinr fur fttt, Uvf THE PHANTOH BRIDE, oa THE TEST OF LOVE. ''Will 700. lora me, aran boyond the tomb ? The queatioa came from th rermillion lips of a joong girl at a fancy ball in Paria daring the veiffaof LooU XIV. She waa a brilliant bru BUfl. with abandaot raren hair, and wore-the 8panLh ei! and mantilla, which ahe had aasumed for the occaaion, with all the grace of a daughter Anlalaaia. ". j Her companion, a noble Scotch Earl of some two or three and twentf, arrayed aa a warrior of Marr Stoart'a. in Scotch plaid and Highland bonnet and feather, had been par suing the fair unknown all the ereniog with pro testations of lore and eternal fidelity. His an awer was prompt and nnheaitating : ' " Yes. I swear it. If I die I will dream of you in the sepulche, and a thrill of joy will wel come joa if your foot bat press the grass over my head. ' ; And if I sboald die?" inqnired the young ffirl, in a sad tone. : "If job should die, t will be as faithful to joa dead as lirirg, and if you should be permitted to riait me, I will kiss jour cold hand with aa much lore as at this moment; and he pressed to his lips the little white hand of the beautiful Spaniard. " ; " Ah, well 1 1 permit jou, then to lore me. We hall see if 700 will be. constant. Farewell ; we ball meet again." ' But where ? when ? demanded the Earl, anxious!. - I eaa not tell. Perhaps hareperhaps elsewhere bnt yon will see me." And, with a jestare which forbade him to follow her, she disappeared ia the crowd. ' Two years passed away, during which Earl Ralph tlortoa sought vainly at Marly, at Ver eailles, la erery place of public resort, for his beatiful aaksown. He waa a Scotch maa by birth, and, like many of his countrymen, bad entered the sarriee of the King of Fiance. Bat Court life did eot comport well with his slender fortune, aad be became, era long deeply inrolted ia debt. - c, - Yon most Sad some rich heiress," said his sympathizing friends it was the usual resource of embarrassed gentlemen of that day. But the Carl had not forgotten the bewitching Andalnsiaa, ftnlwasiano mood for the search. He was pared tie trouble, bo werar. Hie naele, who was the archbishop of an Assyrian city destroyed by lis Caaaas, Informed hint eoe day that it was time t:t tia to mxtrj, and that ha had band a - ml't for tisa.'. - '. ' ; ' ' ' U - rich ? bialrel Ralpa.V" I do not ask If the U ptetty it is all the moi to aeW Very rich aai rery pretty.'? ; -, 7 ; ' The Earl tioozltcf U$ unknown, nd sighed , lien tloojlit cf his creiitorf, and ccmentai The nnc'a arrae jed ererytbin, aod when au was Bs'.-e i be tie nephew bis beaeiictioa.and twota-2 rt.isVis.anl iant timcTtoCar-mJ:ti"rv til r:?rects t JlademoUsl'e rir'-t Tt!:'. fL:aLs wis t aarry ia a fort - - . . - .v ...... " A li:rs cf several day's duration trcc.rbt V.-n&l L-n-th to tia nac'ant feudal maa-cr !:r::9cf T.ocie IToire.sltcistel in tie tsirt bf v ca a lof:j rock froa wtiea it d:rirei in o'.3. Us was expected. The grtsi dsor cf " ths mansion was open, and an aged serrant met hint at the threshhold, aad conducted him to a large ball, at the extremity of which sat an old man and a young girL The former, whom be diriaed at once to be the Baron of Roche Noire, rose at bis entrance, and, saluting him ia the somewhat formal fashion of the day, presented him to his daughter Herminie. The latter bad the voluptuous beauty of the flower which bas unfolded acder a southern sun. She was pale, with fair hair, and eyes of the deep blue of an Italian sky. Her figure was rich but graceful, her hands so exquisitely shaped and transparent as alabaster. 80 much the Earl saw as he bent before bis betrothed, and ia spite of bis professed indifference, he inwardly congratulated himself on his good fortune. The Earl and Baron exchanged the c so al reciprocal compliments and inquiries. Ralph was accustomed to society, and understood well the art of making himself agreeable ; the Baron, spite of bis seventy winters, bad not forgotted to be a courtier ; and Herminie had the simple grace, the dignity, the modesty without prudery, of a young girl of high birth, religiously educated, but withoat any rigidity. The conrersation soon became animated and sparkling, while Ralph watched Herminie, and now and then wbiflpred to himself, " She is charming I Blessings on my unci for finding me a wife at once so pretty and so rich." When supper was announced be offered bis hand to the young girl, who accepted it with a blush, while the Baron led the way to the dning room. It was a lofty apartment, furnished in the massive style of Loris YIV, and upon the walls were suspended ancient family portraits. As Ralph's eye glanced over these it was at tracted by one whose freshness formed a striking contrast to the smoky caaraaaes deroted to the defunct Barons of Roche Noire. It represented a young girl of dazzling, but foreign beauty such as is only found under southern skies. A more brilliant daughter of Spain nevar daaeed the bolero in the perfumed gardens of the Athambra. The eyes of Ralph were fixed immovably upon the can raw ; the first glance bad told him that it was bia long-lost unknown of the fancy balL Come, my dear Earl," said the Baron, "let as be seated." - . Ralph started and obeyed, then turned his eyes from the portrait to Herminie. In contrast with that glowieg beauty she appeared to hint utterly osipid. Be made some remark about the picture. The Baron did not reply, but a cloud passed orer bis face, aad Herminie turned pale, and sat sileat with dawacast eyes. A ebill seemed to be thrown over these three persona, jaat now talking ao joy oosly. Brief remarks were made occasionally, in a constrained tone, and the eupper ended al most in silence. At its close the Earl made the fatigue of bia journey an excuse for retiring early. As the servant was conducting him to bis apartment they passed agaia through the diniog-hall. Whose portrait is this ? " "be asked, pointing to the picture of the lady. The servant hesitated. Speak!" said the Earl, imperiously. " It ia the portrait of Mademoiselle Fulmen," said the old man, trembling. "Who ia ahe?" "The elder sister of Mademoiselle Hermi' nie. : . ' But ahe is dressed in Spanish costume." f'.Yes- her mother was a Spaniah lady." " And Fulmen, where ia aba no ? " ." She ia dead," aaid the old man, solemnly. "She lies at the left of the altar in the chapel of the castle." - a ;'.;.'." Fatigue had no power that night to bring sleep to Ralph's eyelids. It was 12 rain that he ex' tinguished the candles, and buried hia bead do der the blanket j the image of Fulmen till pur. sued him. Now, it was Fulmen, radiant with beauty, as she was represented in the picture! and as he bad seen her at the fancy-ball ; again, it was Fulmen, pale and cold, extended in her coffin, under the pavement of the chapel. Then he remembered his oath, to lore her as well dead as living, and a cold sweat bathed his brow. At that moment a light at the' opposite extremity of tbo apartment attracted his attention ; a door, whose existence he bad not suspected, turned noisleasly on iu hinges; the candles relighted themselves spontaneously, and a figure, draped in a winding sheet, entered the room and approached bis bed. It adrancad slowly ; the most acute ear could bare detected no sound of footsteps. Brare as be was tbo Earl trembled at the apparition. When the figure waa witbia a few feet of the bed the winding sheet was thrown back, and revealed a young girl dressed ia Span ish costume. Fulmen I he murmured ; " the picture has descended from its frame 1 " It waa indeed Fulssea, just as aba was painted, save that the lips were pale, the eves mournful, the whole expression unspeakably sad. M Fulmen 1 " repeated the Earl, with a tone of terror, ia which was mingled a sort of feverish joy. It Is I, she aaid. " Do yon remember your oath ? They bar told 70a that lam dead." The teeth of Ralph chaUcred j bat the voice was ao pore, ao melodious, that it aided him to shake off the torpor which was creeping orer hint. - . --".: .. . - No joa are not dead," be exclaimed, with aa effort. . ., . ! "I bare beea dead a year," repSad Fulmen, J. 1 Taor boned ma la tba chapel You can read my epitaph aa tba t&atbla slab the tbird front the high altar. : Ralph oould aot detacV bia wyes froWtiiia aia- gular ereatare, wbooa marrelloua baaar aonatarw acted, la some de-reattbe terror which tiaaraa. - Aias 1 rerums ut spectra drawiej the shroud about bar fana wiih fall the coquetry which a living belle ( might wrap an opera cloak aronad ber, " a dssJ, asd serenUen-whea life was full of L-ht; and perfume, and maaie; when tears, even were S3 sweet. that they resem bled ZTsIles i wben the prwect was so happy that tht faare was qulu rcUea j aai tiea I brad you. I trusted ia roar eat&t bat yoaTdid not care for me. Yon brrw coma bars to marry. my sister." r: Fulmen f murmured Ralph, who felt a pang of remorse at bis heart. I bar lored 70a t I lore yoa still. She shook ber bead. " The dead are never loved,1 aba said sadly. Ralph trembled. He felt bis blood curdle in bis reins. He remembered bis oath. Yet Ful men did not complain. She did not overwhelm Trim with reproaches. She seemed resigned. He saw her lean her bead upon her hand, a tear shone in ber eye, and a shiver passed through ber frame. " :yr- "I am cold," she said, and rising from the chair ia which she bad seated herself she approached, the fireplace, and bent as if-to warm herself by the half-extinguished brands. . The dead are always cold," she murmured. - v Hearenel" exclaimed Ralph, ."yon are not dead; but dead or living, yon are beautiful more beautiful than any living woman and I love yon as on the day I firat saw you." "The dead are never lored," she repeated mournfully. . "But yoa are cot dead. The limbs of the dead are rigid; the flesh corrupt; they are insensible; they can not walk; they can not . speak; yon are not dead it is impossible." "I am dead," repeated Fulmen, in a tone of authority which admitted of question; "dead, and yet I suffer." : v "Yoa suffert" the Earl exclaimed. "Yes. Because I died with a guilty thought in my heart. I remembered the ball where I met you. It was earthly lore not penitence, that engrossed my last hours. Yet if yon who are alive can lore me still, Ood will perhaps pardon me, and I shall suffer no longer." Ml do love you," cried Ralph, gazing at the young girl so beautiful in ber sadness. Yet a secret voice said witbia him: "Ah! if she were only aliref A pale smile passed orer the face of the phan torn. It rose and adranced toward him. Ralph involuntarily sbrnnk back at iu approach. "Yoa see." she said, mournfully, "it ia always so. lne living tear ine aeaav "No, not" said be, eagerly, ashamed of the momentary terror; no, F.olmea, of belored, coma!" She extended her band aad took that of the young man. Kalpb uttered a cry. tlis band was pressed by the cold, clammy fingers of a corpse, bbe let bis band lalu . . "No," she repeated, in a balf-aoffocated roice, "you sea it east sot be; I aball suffer al way a!" - And she fled, while Ralph was so overpowered that be bad no power to apeak or more. The candles went out suddenly; silence reigned again in the chamber, the phantom bad vanished. The next day dawned bright and beautiful.- The Baron de Roche Noire who did not appear to notice the pallor and abstraction of the guest, proposed a bunt. The day waa apent in the open air; and if, amid the excitement of the chase the Earl thought of the occurrences of the last night, they seemed to him only as a bewildering dream. But with the return of darkness, and especially at the sight of the picture, the appari-ation again seemed to bim a reality, and he de terminea to ascertain . tne trutu. : rieadiDtr a headache he retired to his room, and, extin guiabing the candles, he called softly. "Fulmen! Fulmeul,, There was no answer. Again he called "Fulmeul . I lore you though dead." Immediately the candles were relit, and Fulmen again appeared. .She threw off ber wind- ing-sheet, and seated herself in a chair by bis side. Her face bad the cadaverous paleness of the tomb; eyes were sad; her steps alow and painful; yet her exqnidite beauty exerted the aame fascination over him as when sparkling witb life and vivacity. "Fulmen, I love you!" he repeated, gazing at her with admiration. "Yet if my hand ahouli touch yours," she replied with a sad smile, "you would ntter a cry, a you did last night; the dead are always cold." "Give me your band, and you . will see," said Ralph, extending resolutely bis own. She took it, and again there came over bim the same terrible sensation as before; but be bad self-control enough to conquer it, and again to repeat, "I love you!" ;. A bright smile illumined the features of Ful men. "My poor friend," she said, "I wonld gladly believe you; but if your lore would end my suf ferings, it must be so profound, so ardent, that it can conquer even desire to lira. A tomb witb me most hare attraction for you, and yoa are bnt twenty fire, Ralph. At your age life is sweet. The Earl shook bis bead. "To lire without you is death: to ba united to you, eren ia the tomb, would be life." "Take care, my friend." "Of what, dear FalmenT exclaimed Ralph, orer whom the smile of the young girl seemed to exercise aa overpowering fascination. "Do you know," she said, "that if you utter such a wish, God may bear your prayer?" ' "Ah, if be would! An eternity by jour side wonld be infinite happiness.1 . "Ralph, my friend," interrupted Fulaea, while a smile of celestial joy shone ia ber face, "take care; yoa will die if joa love me. -: "i wish to dia. - ' : Bnt joa are betrothed to tbj Ister." Aa axelamatioa of anger escaped tia. "I bate herf" ba said vthemenily. 1 "Becaosa aha Is aUre will joa: ? 4 ead What has sia done that 1 shou!l enjoy the Cht of tha tan, tha perfume Of Cowers, the mel. ody of birds. "I7aa sia aoj jonnjer cr mere beautiful?" -t . .V -"-":-' : "Ralcb. vou are arrnst. Uf .nZst L&S oo a -e - control over ber destiny cr oiue. '-r; r ; Yoa are rtbt, perbaps, tutI swear to you that I will never marry Ilerainia. I wkb to be yours, and only yours, fjrever" ' "Xou are mad, my friend; I Cii nil accept happiness at sud a sacriSca." ; ; She rose slowly, ; Cexminla aad pray tat tcfJ - ' " ' "Fulmeul Fulmen!" exclaimed Ralph f&HIcg on bis knees at ber feat, "Do not abandoa me I lore you?" "' "But your lore is death." " It is bappineaal It is lifer His tone was so touching that the young girl hesitated. '"' "Let me Sra eternally -with you," ha persisted. "Listen, my friend," she said at length, as she could no longer resist bis entreaties. "In this casket," pointing to a richly-carred box which stood on the table," there is a fial containing a dark liquid." " "And this liquid?" 1 "Is death!" "It is happiness!" exclaimed Ralph, seizing the casket. . ' . Fulmen stopped him by a gesture. "Not yet," she said; "by and by at midnight but first reflect! Immediately the candles were extinguished and Ralph found himself ia complete darkness. If Earl Ralph had been a Frenchman, as soon as Fulmen disappeared, be would hare opened the window and let the. cool night air play upon his brow. Then, the ferer - fit being over he would bare aaid to himself, "All this is folly. I am twenty-five years old, an ofScer in the King's service, and am about to marry a youne girb blooming as a Mado tna, fair aa a lily, who will bring be an income of a hundred thousand Ii-rres. I bare only to be quiet, and let things take their course." After which be would bare slept quietly, and dreamed no more of Fulmen. But Ralpb was a Scotchman, with an imagination as susceptible of exultation as most of bis countrymen of the land of mountain and mist. As -soon as the phantom vanished, be re-lighted the candle by the aid of a helfextinguished firebrand, and, opening the casket, he took out the rial. "Fulmen! Fulmen! wait for mel I'am com ing!" ba murmured, and swollowed the contents at a draught." - For a moment be experienced a strange and inexplicable sensation; a coldness In the chest, a beat ia the bead; then his eyes became beary; bis limbs trembled; aa extreme languor crept over bim, and be sank upon tbo floor, still mur muring faintly, "Fulmen . wait fcr me I love you . . When Ralpb swallowed the contents of the phial be expected to awake in the other worlds He was mistaken: tha phiaty eoataiaed oaly a aarcotic i aad ba was rery much .aatoniabad on opening bis eyes to find himself ia bed, and to sea the sun shining through the curtain windows. A lady eat by tha bedside. It was Fulmen! but uo longer tha pale, sad Fulmen, fresh, radiant ; joyous, ia the same cuetueoe which aba wore at the fancy balL The reader will understand the explanation of this more readily than the Earl, whose head was still somewhat confused from the effects of the narcotic. The young girl bad wished to put tha sudden passion" of ber ball room lorer to the test; and with some difficulty, she bad persuaded her fond old father and her cousin Herminie to lend themselves to the mystification. A little ingenuity, sdme invisible assistance, transparent glove of serpent skin, aided by the native super stition of the young Scotchman, were all that was necessary to the success of the scheme. We need not say that the Earl, when be recov ered his senses, was very glad to exchange his phantom bride for a living one. Cristiiuis FROSX A METHODIST. a "". ZIO&E TESTI1I0NY. ' " THE 80UTH AS BIEJT BT BXT. DR. BASCS. We cannot refrain from placing before our readers the following extracts from a letter of Rer. Dr. Bangs, a New York metbodist preach- er7bo is on a visit South, which we find ialhe Meihoditt, a truly christian newspaper ; V lOtriSlAHi COSTKRKKCB. Before I left New York, some of my friends expressed fears (though I had none myself,) that I might meet with bard usage at the South. But their fears were groundless. The Louisiana Conference assembled the week after my arrival. Bishop Early aad the preachers received me as a Christian minister and a Christian brother, and in every place, and by all the people with whom I associated, I was treated with as much kindness and warm-hearted friendship as ever before ia my life. The conference U smell- about aeraaty preachers, mostly yonng men, full of seal and activity. jSome bad to go seven" or eight hundred miles to their fields of labor, at aa expense of one or two hundred dollars, but they seemed to go to their work cbeerf nUy. A beautiful brick Methodist Episcopal church bas just been erected in Baton Rouge, it was dedi cated the babbata after our arrival. Rev. C K. Marshall of the Hississippt Conference, preached the dedicatory eermoo an eloquent and glori cus discourse it was, from the words "Worship God." They invited me to preacb in the even ing. I did the best I. could, with my bead roll ing and pitching lXs the sfcfp I bad jm'tleft.--Tboogb the members ef ilia cLarcb are eompa- tion, lie sua cf ZWlZi tzviri de&ayir the expense fcf iu creel;: v V.'tJ net tilt Bella for a feeble society ? yJv:'-..-.-:-- i,'..-.,-;. seeaed ta tire errlrE?, Lcrivrr, ia the season of dadics.:iocs..-,"Tl Vreiljisz'.za ciurcb ef this place waj consecrate J ca tie 17th, tt Ret. Dr,:Brec1dnrl!r. rreslieot, cf Oakland CoHe-e, -.llissisjjL H'.3 tcrmca eu2 prayer for the Union CI m no- I f.!t givisz a good tlelLcxJIsts ?- ac t:!i M: t3. Hearing that I wta.ia lown,-f ti&Tr.' ccacons " irsltsd upon c wUi Bf-II'.s reie:t that I wos'J preach far tieta ia tie evenia',- to lic!i I cLesrfUI'y cscseku'v Tta Lc; J LtTed cae to t-JU tie truth ia love the scrmoa w&a laud and Ian enough, to have beea a good one. Oa the after ,AdlaalUlpa,wai noon of the same Sabbath, I preached to the blacks in the llethodist Episcopal church. I enjoyed it much, and they seemed to feel "mighty" well, too before service closed they began to walk aroand and shake bands witb "old mas. sa." Some of them, I believe, thought "old masaa," did sot use big words enough, but talked to them too much as if they were little children. One of them , bad bia hymn book, started the tunes and closed with prayjer. ,. SLAVX&T. The relation of master and sTave has never, to my satisfaction, been proved a sia. That there are great e vile .connected with it, cr that may grow out of it, I have no doubt. So are there evils that may result from the marriage relation, or the relation of parent and child, bnt this does notprove the relatioa itself to be a sin. A great change has come over the political feeling both North and South, within the last twenty-five years. One extreme begets another. ' The extreme measures of the North npon this sub ject, bare driven the South into the opposite ex treme. Heretofore there were thousands at the South who considered slavery an evil, but a net ces8ary evil, which they knew not how to remove but now, so far as I could learn, they bare come to the conclusion that the "institution" is righ and scriptural, and the best state possible for the blacks. . I will not stop to argue the point at all, I merely state the fact. As to the physical Condition of the slaves at the South, I believe they are far better off than the free blacks of the-..Worth better fed, better clothed, better boused, and do less work. They appear the happiest set of people to be found their masters and mistresses have all the care and expense. I am told the laws of Louisiana an d Mississippi are very severe int prelecting the slave. The Methodists are doing a great work among them. Many missionaries are employed on the plantations some of them are paid by the planters themselves, some by the Missionary society and some congregations of blacks in New Orleans support themselres. I conversed with a brother preacher, who is constantly laboring among this people, and he gave ; a thrilling account of bis mission. The movements of the abolitionist of the North j have been productive of evil and only evil to the , matter and slaves; exasperating the former and causing them to restrict the privileges of the latter. Oh, when shall this wicked strife come to an end, and brotherly love and fraternal intercourse return ? . . . Let us give the South their just claims,' and let their institutions alone. Cease this uschrie tian strife there is a worse evil than slavery- brother warring against brother t I love my Southern brethren. There are as" Warm . and tree hearted christians here as any place on the face of the earth, and they are as honest in their view of things as we are. We must beware of rash judgment. God will Judge us all in the last day. Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for my church and my country I Shall I live to see this beautiful structure which mv father assisted to raise with his blood, scat tered to the winds ? I pray you, ye men. of strife and contention, stop bands off I I repeat, undo as far aa you can, the mischief yon, have already done. Aa long as I live will I pray for the peace of Jerusalem and the union of these United States ' O God, the Lot d of hosts arise and save thy heritage, for vain is the help of man. H. Basgs. FROM A PRESBYTERIAN. The Cause of our Perilous Troubles. The following we extract from an able appeal to Christians, North and South, written by Dr. Rice, an eminent Presbyterian divine of Chicago: . . ' . The perilous troubles mainly came of the new reasons for opposition to s'avery ihveoted by abolitionism ; out of the naw spirit created and diffused by the propagation of these reasons, and out of the apprehensions awakened in the South by the spread of these views and this spirit They have felt these reasons to be insulting to them they have found this spirit a malignant, an intermeddling, a dictatorial, a treacherous and dangerous spirit. They hare seen its pro gress among us at the North, destroying rever ence for divine and human law, separating chief friends, under the guise of extraordinary piety, entering churches and filling them with wrath and clamor, and all evil speaking and bitterness They have seen it entering the hails of Congress and inflaming every passion, and making the old terms of legislative intercourse and bearing impossible. -They have felt it in social inter course when they have come to visit the borne of their kindred, or for education or pleasure, in the bitter denunciation, of the stioging insult They have felt it in their own distant homes, ma kinjg be night anxious and the sacred castle of the citizen insecure. They have felt it in see log their attempts to do a manly and Christian part of their bojadmeb and dependants thwarted, they have been awakened to it by midnizht bur nings and slaughter. Tbey saw it ally itself with a great political party, and assOme to speak for and commit that party, and in the triumph of that party they thought they naw the triumph of this spirit cf abolition iam." They beard its shoots and jubilee at the result, and judged that a majority of . the people of the North bad ' installed an Administration to carry on the Gov eminent, and administer the Constitution in the interest aad sense of Abolition. If they are right ia this ja'ment of the causes and issues of the last Presidential election, it J$ perfectly useless to attempt to preserre theUcjon to try to prever.t the very last s!are State from f-1. lowing onUi CarcUca..' If thev are 'mLtatea ia tL&t j ai-iect, tbea tbe salvation cf tie Union depend upon theirletr ' t-eedilyecavinced'of tcir ra'stare tbat the great and triutnrbant psi ty wLich e!ected tia President did net vo!e 0-lUlon' when itej vote 1 fbr Ltae&Ia t1a.t ti ?j do cct raeaa'now t inU.l tia fIl e-trlt ia"the seat of Federal power. If a majority ef the cillzens of tha free States have beea really woa to Aboli- tionixm, the TJnioa Is impossible. If the Sontb are made to settle down into the belief that they are, the Uaioa cannot survive ft' year never be reconstructed after being now overthrown. No man who knows anything of the character and temper of the Soataarn people can for atant deny one ef these propositions." an u- Miljjfrit Confex)eratg. OVaTIOIV TO JEFF. DAVIS! No S tep3 Backwards ! The Cotton Confederacy to Stand, and no Compromise to bo Accepted. Inauguratioa of President Davis Inaa : gural Addreas. MoxTooMiaT, Feb. 1Y. The trip of Mr. Davis from Mississippi to Montgomery, was one eontinuons ovation. He made twenty-five speeches on the route, returning thanks end complimentary greetings to crowds of ladies and gentlemen and military, at the various depots. A committee ot Congress and the Montgomery authorities met Mr. Davis about 80 miles off, and formally received him. - Two fine military companies of Georgia,joined the escort at Apilika, and all reached Montgomery last night at 10 o'clock. He was received with great enthusiasm. A large crowd assembled at the depot, which was addressed aa follows: . ' " : He said be felt proud to receive the congratulations and hospitality of the people of Alabama. He briefly reviewed the present position of the South. He said that the time for compromise is passed end we are determined to maintain our position and make all who oppose ns smell South era powder, and feel Southern steeL If coercion was persisted ia be bad no doubt as to the result, we will maintain our rights of Government at all bazar a. We ask nothing, want nothing, and will have no complications.It other States join our Confederation, they can freely come on our terms. Our aepara' tion from the old Uaioa ia complete, no com promise, no reconstruction eaa bow be entertained. - A Urge crowd waited on Mr Davis oa bis arrival at the Exchange HoteL The ladies were equally enthnsiastie with the gentlemen. At a quarter before eleven at enthusiastic calls, Mr. Davis appeared oa the balcony and said t Fellow Citizens, and Brethren of the Confederate States of America, for now we are brethren aot ia aame merely but ia fact, men of one flesh, one bone, one interest one purpoae, and of one ideality of domestic institutions. We have hence, I trust, the prospect cf living together ia peace witb our institutions, subject to protection not defamation, It may be our career will be ushered in, ia the midst of storms ; it may be that as this moraing opened witb- cloods, mist and rain, we shall have to encounter inconveniences at the beginning, bnt as the sun rose it lifted the mist and dissipated the clouds, nod left the pure sub. lighs of beeves : ao will the progress of the Southern Confederacy carry us safe into the harbor of Constitutional liberty, (Applause) and po Iitical equality. (Applause.)" Taea- we bare nothing to fear at borne, because at home we have a bomogenity. We wilt bare nothing to fear abroad, because, if war should come, if we must again baptise in blood-the principles for which our fathers bled in the revolution, we shall show that we are not degenerate sons, but will redeem the pledge they gave, preserve the sacred rights they transmitted to ns, and show that Southern valor still shines as bright as in '76 '12, and in every other conflict ( Applause.) I was informed my friends, that your kindness only required I should appear before you, fatigued by travel, and hoarse, I am unable to speak at at any length, and came merely to assure you of my gratitude for these manifestations of your ood win. I come with diffidence and distrust to the discharge of the great duties devolved on me by the kindness and confidence of the Congress of the Confederate States. I thank yon friends for the manifestations of favor and approbation yoa exhibit on this occasion. Moxtoomet, Feb. 18. The inaugural ceremonies to-day were the grandest pageant ever witnessed in the South. There was an immense crowd on Capital Hill, consisting of a great array of the beauty military and citizens of the different States. Mr. Daris commenced -precisely at 1 o'elock. He said, gentlemen of the Congress of the Confederated States of America, friends and fellow citizens : Called to the difficult and responsible station of Chief Executive of the Provisional Government which yoa have instituted , I approach the discharge of the daties assigned me with an humble distrust of my abilities, but with a sustaining confidence in the wisdom of those who are to guide and aid me in the adminiatra-tion of public affaire, and an abiding faith in the virtue and patriotism of the people, looking for-ward to the speedy establishment of a permanent government to take the place of this and which by its greater moral and physical power, will be better able to eombat with the many difficulties which arise from the conflicting interests of separate nations.- - I enter upon the duties of the office to which I have been chosen, with the hope that the beginning of our career as a Confederacy may not be obstructed by hostile opposition to our enjoy ment of the separate existence and independence which, with the blessing of povidenee we bare asserted, and which with the blessing of Prjrt-deaee we intend to maintain oor present condition, achieved ia a manner unprecedented in the history of Nation, illustrates the American idea that governments rest upon the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter and abolish governments, whenever they become destructive to the ends for which they were established. , The declared compact of the Union from which we have withdrawn, was to establish justice, in-sere domestic traocility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare and secure the bleaainpa of liberty to ourselves and our posterity and when ia judgment of the sovereign States now comprising this Confederacy, it has beea perverted from the purposes for which It was ordained, aad ceases to answer the ends for which ' it was' established." a peaceful appeal to the ballot box declared, that, so far as tbey were concerned, the government created by that earn pact should cease to exist Is tLia thej Br!y asserted tie risLt which tie Declaration of Independence . cf 1773, defined to te inalienable ; of the time aud c cation of its exercise, they aa sovereigns were the final judges, each for itself. The i partial, enlhtened verdict cf mankind, will vindicate tLa rectitude cf our eendoct. and Ha who knows the hearts cf men -iH ju?-e cf the siacerity wUb vLk!i Utored to preserve ihm eov-mcnett cf ear fi'tra iaits apnt The rM aoTerwo! rrocl-ucsed at the lirti c" the'CieteVand w hit it bas teen sOmed ,r " ! r armea ia ise oiu ui - "--- qoest?y admitted into the Lmon ot lt.J, nowe-niably reeernlzesia the people the powsr to resume the aulhoxity delegated for tie purpose cf government Thus tha eoveraga Ctatst lere represented proeeeaea to tona uia VJon: 'rry, . aaid it is by the abuse of largnage tltt tieir act baa been denominated revolution. TLcv farmed a sew alliance but witbia each u.U its government bas retained the rights of person and p- perty. The agent through whom ILey eocmu nic&tjkd witb fnmtirn nations ia thar .d. bet ifia does not necessarily interrupt their international relations, bustained by the consciousness tat the transition from the former Union to the present Confederacy, has not proceeded from a die regard on our part ot our just obligations or any failure to perform every constitutional duty, moved bv no interest or naaaion to invade tha rights of others, we are anxious to culuvale peace and commerce with all nations. If we may not hope to avoid war, we may at least expect that posterity will acqait us of hat ing needlessly engaged in it. Doubly just justi wanton aggression on the part of others, there can be no cause to doubt the courage and patriotism of the people of the Confederate Ltatea will be found equal to ey measures of defence which soon their security mey require. An agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace and the first which our necessitie will permit- It is alike our interest and that of aU those from . whom we would buy, that there should L tie fewest practicable"restrictione upon the inter change of commodities. There eaa be tct kula rivalry between us, and any manufacturlcg or navigating community such as the free States of the American Union, it must therefore fwllow therefrom that mutual interests would invite good will and kind offices; if, however, passion or lust of dominion . should cloud the judgment or in flame the ambition of those 8 tales, we mustprav pare to meet the emergency and maintain by the final arbitrament of the sword the new position we have assumed among the nations ox lie : earth. We have entered upon, a career of Independence which must be inflexibly pursued throng V many years of controversy, but our late associates the Northern States, may vainly endeavor to secure tranquility and obtain respect fcr tLa - rights to which we were eotitled as a aecescl'r, not a choice. We have resorted to the teat.tr ' of a separation, and henceforth our energies otst be directed to the consideration of oar own af fairs and tha perpetuity cf the Confederacy we have formed. . If a just perceptioa of mutual interests shall permit as peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will bare been fultlJed ; but if this be Cec.3 ca and the integrity of our territory and j urisUoa ba assailed, it will but remain for as, wub ra rev solve to appeal to arms aad Invoke the t.ecur? of Providence oa a just cause. - As a eonqsence of our new condition and with a view to ceel anticipated wants, it will be necessvry to rroviie a speedy and efficient organization cf tie trrzei. ee At the executive eepartment. Having special charge of foreign intsrconr;3, finance, military afTairs and posts! frvi:fsf.r purposes of defeace, the Confeder&te L.i'.:ic:y under ordinary circumstances rely mais.! tca their militia, but it is deemed- advisable ia tie present condition of alairs, that there te a well ioa true ted and disciplined army, more en-meroos than would usually be required oa a peace establishment , . , ,17117. Sumter fijioull 27ot be Attacisi Judge Lonsstreet in a communication ia tie Columbia Guardian, defeeda Governor Pickena for not ordering an attack on Fort Sans ter, contrary to the clamor ringing throughout Charles ton and tha fitatn Brrini it. Tlia jRrmik. that he would not order an attack though all the people of South Carolina demanded it .The following are bis reasons:- Because every day ie weakening the fort, and strengthening our Dover over it; because nothing can be .lost by delaj up-to within eight or ten days before Lincoln's in-auguration; because I don't wish to give the submissionists of the South an apology for their fears; because I am sure every one of the seceding States would oppose the attack, not because it woold be wrong, but because it would embarrass their operations; because it would give Abolitionists at the North power orer our friends in mas quarter; Decease 1 Deiieve, as soon as I be Southern Confederacy is formed, the furls will be delivered ap without bloodshed; because I am now sure no reinforcements will be sent to Fort Sumter, and if there should be, we could siskr them before they could reach the fort; bec&nse I would bare South Carolina exchange riews now with her sister seceding States before she taken any step which must involve their interests be-oause I would consider the possession of the fort just now a burden rather than a benefit. Tbua would 1 act with mr aim lighte. Proposed Division of the State of Texar., , The western and northwestern portions of the State of Texas; are overwhelmingly ia faror. of the Union, while the eastern section, from its proximity to Louisiana, is somewhat under the inflaenca of tha latter Slate. "Aa an strident tit the conservative character of western Texas, it is only necessary to - state that at aa election held in Travis county, ia the middle of January-the Union candidate for member of the Assembly was elected by two hundred and tw!. ma jority. Travis county is oa the Colorado rlfcr. and its county town is Austin, the Capittil cf tie State. - It is suggested here that bow is the pro- nar 1 1 ma mwiA ftViaa rvs'aaLeV rt I sun rtmsUn si rr .-'" of public sentiment ia Teaas aCTorda the rrc-r accasioa for a division ef the State unertLe stipulation ef the act ef annexation. . . V'eatens Texas would make a fine State, and a faithful Uo ion-loving member of the Confederac", situ a- : ted directly oa the liexicaa border, and a t'a witn tne l-edaraJ torce - already there to prptsct the frontier, to defend aad luntu tcmlf a 15 tit the entire South. ' - - " - " - r A. Terrible Tragedy. , A terrible tragedy occurred ia this city L ?t night A party of five Overland ilail aci Li. lie ire ae m . t a- ivock xaca crivers, eutereo toe erocery c,a German named Cagge, and com coenced c - :u ; : 1-l'n,. Pistols were drawa on both sl-.irtle barkeeper named. Butcher was shot tarcr tearTand died instantly. Hegre rrz shot ia lie forehead, and died at 8 cc 1 -a rti a Three of the drirera, George Uru . Its end Poey Farmer, are Bndr er.. guarded by a company of Unitary. TL mornin 1 and tLr two esoaped. - Intense excitement emeriti c'.'zts, : Tb prisoners ere bow ooder-r-i- tna.1 te.-r theUajor. TLey .will c-dccludl ts Lir;-4. to-day. .r - . - - ' roar Cxtth," Arfc. TI. I- As tie U'rl crt!:e pnso-ers fcr the rscr.'crff Ha?r;earid T-'cler vas drs-ir? to a 3 -- terdsy, a R'b cnt;rt3 tie J-'-.-e's c .... r. I den and ed tLa risoners F-r t'-a fcur; : :: t f lj ".- m; He -a. - Ce cf lie'pnsoners .i:.- : : -7-. Fare t r, trr.-.e L-oai en aloiy sJ r" e--- - lie watCrd e-on e-iir..--- - fr cr-wd secured tbe re-'.io'- 7 : ; : ci&Ja l-r a p'ace cf execiiiicn. I t . .. - ing at their des:gne tbo aa.Lt " " ;. .r ' and secured te prisoners and 1; i 1 Crrenwood jaiL. TLe excitesxest is '..

j j j I J , I I I . . y ;.- -s yy SS. -ivv v t n VOLUME XXIV. MOimT VERNON, om is rninnn avxar nxAr unt, OIlea in TTooiyard'i Slock, Third Storj TERilS Tvi Dollar per siim, payable ia advance, $569 witbia six months; $3,00 after the expiration of the year. (jl01tt Dance Xfgrht, Tor Mr Heart Lies Under Tour Feet, Lore. .. The "sHewing lines, by Jeha treemaa Wallace, are aa BBBsieal aa ApoBo'e lute: "Ah, iWNt Kitty Neil, rise up from thai wheel, ' Tour aeat little feet will be weary from epinning; Come trip down with me to the sycamore tree, Half the pariah la there, and the dance ia begia- ning. --The ana ia gone down, hut the fall harreit moon Chinee aweetly and eool en the dew-whitened valley; i While all the air ring with the aoft, loring thing, Each little bird ainga in the green ahadd alley." With blush and a amile, Kitty roae ap, the while, Eer eye la the glass, as ahe hound her hair, glane- ing; - ' ' ' Tla hard to refute when a young lorer euee Bo ahe couldn't bat e house to ge off to the dano- "... iBg, Aad bow on the green the glad gronpa are eeen, Each gay-hearted lad with a laaa of hi a ehooaing- And Pit, without fail, leads oar aweet Kitty N oil-Somehow, when he asked, ahe ne'er thought of reTaalag. - Now, Felix Magee pnta hia pipes to hia knee, Aad with nourish ao free aeta eaeh eonple ia mo-. ' tion; .; "' " ! With a cheer and a bound the lada patter the ground, Xhe maid more around just like a wan a on the Cheeka bright aa the roae feet light aa the doe'a, Now coyly retiring, now boldly advancing fieareh the world all aroond, from the aky to the - groaaeV" . v -.S auch eight eaa be foaad aa an Iriih laaa dane-. ig! . ' Sweat Kate! who avoid view yoar bright eyee of deep blao, Beaming hamidly through their dark laahaa ao mildly, . . ' Tear falr-taraad arm, hearing breaat, rounded form, - Nor foel hia heart war m, and polaea throb wildly. Toaag Pat foel hia heart, aa he gaxea, depart 6abdaed by the amart of each painful yet aweet lore; The eight learea hia eye, aa he eriea with a aigh, 'Hamc It'gki, for my heart Ue iidinr fur fttt, Uvf THE PHANTOH BRIDE, oa THE TEST OF LOVE. ''Will 700. lora me, aran boyond the tomb ? The queatioa came from th rermillion lips of a joong girl at a fancy ball in Paria daring the veiffaof LooU XIV. She waa a brilliant bru BUfl. with abandaot raren hair, and wore-the 8panLh ei! and mantilla, which ahe had aasumed for the occaaion, with all the grace of a daughter Anlalaaia. ". j Her companion, a noble Scotch Earl of some two or three and twentf, arrayed aa a warrior of Marr Stoart'a. in Scotch plaid and Highland bonnet and feather, had been par suing the fair unknown all the ereniog with pro testations of lore and eternal fidelity. His an awer was prompt and nnheaitating : ' " Yes. I swear it. If I die I will dream of you in the sepulche, and a thrill of joy will wel come joa if your foot bat press the grass over my head. ' ; And if I sboald die?" inqnired the young ffirl, in a sad tone. : "If job should die, t will be as faithful to joa dead as lirirg, and if you should be permitted to riait me, I will kiss jour cold hand with aa much lore as at this moment; and he pressed to his lips the little white hand of the beautiful Spaniard. " ; " Ah, well 1 1 permit jou, then to lore me. We hall see if 700 will be. constant. Farewell ; we ball meet again." ' But where ? when ? demanded the Earl, anxious!. - I eaa not tell. Perhaps hareperhaps elsewhere bnt yon will see me." And, with a jestare which forbade him to follow her, she disappeared ia the crowd. ' Two years passed away, during which Earl Ralph tlortoa sought vainly at Marly, at Ver eailles, la erery place of public resort, for his beatiful aaksown. He waa a Scotch maa by birth, and, like many of his countrymen, bad entered the sarriee of the King of Fiance. Bat Court life did eot comport well with his slender fortune, aad be became, era long deeply inrolted ia debt. - c, - Yon most Sad some rich heiress," said his sympathizing friends it was the usual resource of embarrassed gentlemen of that day. But the Carl had not forgotten the bewitching Andalnsiaa, ftnlwasiano mood for the search. He was pared tie trouble, bo werar. Hie naele, who was the archbishop of an Assyrian city destroyed by lis Caaaas, Informed hint eoe day that it was time t:t tia to mxtrj, and that ha had band a - ml't for tisa.'. - '. ' ; ' ' ' U - rich ? bialrel Ralpa.V" I do not ask If the U ptetty it is all the moi to aeW Very rich aai rery pretty.'? ; -, 7 ; ' The Earl tioozltcf U$ unknown, nd sighed , lien tloojlit cf his creiitorf, and ccmentai The nnc'a arrae jed ererytbin, aod when au was Bs'.-e i be tie nephew bis beaeiictioa.and twota-2 rt.isVis.anl iant timcTtoCar-mJ:ti"rv til r:?rects t JlademoUsl'e rir'-t Tt!:'. fL:aLs wis t aarry ia a fort - - . . - .v ...... " A li:rs cf several day's duration trcc.rbt V.-n&l L-n-th to tia nac'ant feudal maa-cr !:r::9cf T.ocie IToire.sltcistel in tie tsirt bf v ca a lof:j rock froa wtiea it d:rirei in o'.3. Us was expected. The grtsi dsor cf " ths mansion was open, and an aged serrant met hint at the threshhold, aad conducted him to a large ball, at the extremity of which sat an old man and a young girL The former, whom be diriaed at once to be the Baron of Roche Noire, rose at bis entrance, and, saluting him ia the somewhat formal fashion of the day, presented him to his daughter Herminie. The latter bad the voluptuous beauty of the flower which bas unfolded acder a southern sun. She was pale, with fair hair, and eyes of the deep blue of an Italian sky. Her figure was rich but graceful, her hands so exquisitely shaped and transparent as alabaster. 80 much the Earl saw as he bent before bis betrothed, and ia spite of bis professed indifference, he inwardly congratulated himself on his good fortune. The Earl and Baron exchanged the c so al reciprocal compliments and inquiries. Ralph was accustomed to society, and understood well the art of making himself agreeable ; the Baron, spite of bis seventy winters, bad not forgotted to be a courtier ; and Herminie had the simple grace, the dignity, the modesty without prudery, of a young girl of high birth, religiously educated, but withoat any rigidity. The conrersation soon became animated and sparkling, while Ralph watched Herminie, and now and then wbiflpred to himself, " She is charming I Blessings on my unci for finding me a wife at once so pretty and so rich." When supper was announced be offered bis hand to the young girl, who accepted it with a blush, while the Baron led the way to the dning room. It was a lofty apartment, furnished in the massive style of Loris YIV, and upon the walls were suspended ancient family portraits. As Ralph's eye glanced over these it was at tracted by one whose freshness formed a striking contrast to the smoky caaraaaes deroted to the defunct Barons of Roche Noire. It represented a young girl of dazzling, but foreign beauty such as is only found under southern skies. A more brilliant daughter of Spain nevar daaeed the bolero in the perfumed gardens of the Athambra. The eyes of Ralph were fixed immovably upon the can raw ; the first glance bad told him that it was bia long-lost unknown of the fancy balL Come, my dear Earl," said the Baron, "let as be seated." - . Ralph started and obeyed, then turned his eyes from the portrait to Herminie. In contrast with that glowieg beauty she appeared to hint utterly osipid. Be made some remark about the picture. The Baron did not reply, but a cloud passed orer bis face, aad Herminie turned pale, and sat sileat with dawacast eyes. A ebill seemed to be thrown over these three persona, jaat now talking ao joy oosly. Brief remarks were made occasionally, in a constrained tone, and the eupper ended al most in silence. At its close the Earl made the fatigue of bia journey an excuse for retiring early. As the servant was conducting him to bis apartment they passed agaia through the diniog-hall. Whose portrait is this ? " "be asked, pointing to the picture of the lady. The servant hesitated. Speak!" said the Earl, imperiously. " It ia the portrait of Mademoiselle Fulmen," said the old man, trembling. "Who ia ahe?" "The elder sister of Mademoiselle Hermi' nie. : . ' But ahe is dressed in Spanish costume." f'.Yes- her mother was a Spaniah lady." " And Fulmen, where ia aba no ? " ." She ia dead," aaid the old man, solemnly. "She lies at the left of the altar in the chapel of the castle." - a ;'.;.'." Fatigue had no power that night to bring sleep to Ralph's eyelids. It was 12 rain that he ex' tinguished the candles, and buried hia bead do der the blanket j the image of Fulmen till pur. sued him. Now, it was Fulmen, radiant with beauty, as she was represented in the picture! and as he bad seen her at the fancy-ball ; again, it was Fulmen, pale and cold, extended in her coffin, under the pavement of the chapel. Then he remembered his oath, to lore her as well dead as living, and a cold sweat bathed his brow. At that moment a light at the' opposite extremity of tbo apartment attracted his attention ; a door, whose existence he bad not suspected, turned noisleasly on iu hinges; the candles relighted themselves spontaneously, and a figure, draped in a winding sheet, entered the room and approached bis bed. It adrancad slowly ; the most acute ear could bare detected no sound of footsteps. Brare as be was tbo Earl trembled at the apparition. When the figure waa witbia a few feet of the bed the winding sheet was thrown back, and revealed a young girl dressed ia Span ish costume. Fulmen I he murmured ; " the picture has descended from its frame 1 " It waa indeed Fulssea, just as aba was painted, save that the lips were pale, the eves mournful, the whole expression unspeakably sad. M Fulmen 1 " repeated the Earl, with a tone of terror, ia which was mingled a sort of feverish joy. It Is I, she aaid. " Do yon remember your oath ? They bar told 70a that lam dead." The teeth of Ralph chaUcred j bat the voice was ao pore, ao melodious, that it aided him to shake off the torpor which was creeping orer hint. - . --".: .. . - No joa are not dead," be exclaimed, with aa effort. . ., . ! "I bare beea dead a year," repSad Fulmen, J. 1 Taor boned ma la tba chapel You can read my epitaph aa tba t&atbla slab the tbird front the high altar. : Ralph oould aot detacV bia wyes froWtiiia aia- gular ereatare, wbooa marrelloua baaar aonatarw acted, la some de-reattbe terror which tiaaraa. - Aias 1 rerums ut spectra drawiej the shroud about bar fana wiih fall the coquetry which a living belle ( might wrap an opera cloak aronad ber, " a dssJ, asd serenUen-whea life was full of L-ht; and perfume, and maaie; when tears, even were S3 sweet. that they resem bled ZTsIles i wben the prwect was so happy that tht faare was qulu rcUea j aai tiea I brad you. I trusted ia roar eat&t bat yoaTdid not care for me. Yon brrw coma bars to marry. my sister." r: Fulmen f murmured Ralph, who felt a pang of remorse at bis heart. I bar lored 70a t I lore yoa still. She shook ber bead. " The dead are never loved,1 aba said sadly. Ralph trembled. He felt bis blood curdle in bis reins. He remembered bis oath. Yet Ful men did not complain. She did not overwhelm Trim with reproaches. She seemed resigned. He saw her lean her bead upon her hand, a tear shone in ber eye, and a shiver passed through ber frame. " :yr- "I am cold," she said, and rising from the chair ia which she bad seated herself she approached, the fireplace, and bent as if-to warm herself by the half-extinguished brands. . The dead are always cold," she murmured. - v Hearenel" exclaimed Ralph, ."yon are not dead; but dead or living, yon are beautiful more beautiful than any living woman and I love yon as on the day I firat saw you." "The dead are never lored," she repeated mournfully. . "But yoa are cot dead. The limbs of the dead are rigid; the flesh corrupt; they are insensible; they can not walk; they can not . speak; yon are not dead it is impossible." "I am dead," repeated Fulmen, in a tone of authority which admitted of question; "dead, and yet I suffer." : v "Yoa suffert" the Earl exclaimed. "Yes. Because I died with a guilty thought in my heart. I remembered the ball where I met you. It was earthly lore not penitence, that engrossed my last hours. Yet if yon who are alive can lore me still, Ood will perhaps pardon me, and I shall suffer no longer." Ml do love you," cried Ralph, gazing at the young girl so beautiful in ber sadness. Yet a secret voice said witbia him: "Ah! if she were only aliref A pale smile passed orer the face of the phan torn. It rose and adranced toward him. Ralph involuntarily sbrnnk back at iu approach. "Yoa see." she said, mournfully, "it ia always so. lne living tear ine aeaav "No, not" said be, eagerly, ashamed of the momentary terror; no, F.olmea, of belored, coma!" She extended her band aad took that of the young man. Kalpb uttered a cry. tlis band was pressed by the cold, clammy fingers of a corpse, bbe let bis band lalu . . "No," she repeated, in a balf-aoffocated roice, "you sea it east sot be; I aball suffer al way a!" - And she fled, while Ralph was so overpowered that be bad no power to apeak or more. The candles went out suddenly; silence reigned again in the chamber, the phantom bad vanished. The next day dawned bright and beautiful.- The Baron de Roche Noire who did not appear to notice the pallor and abstraction of the guest, proposed a bunt. The day waa apent in the open air; and if, amid the excitement of the chase the Earl thought of the occurrences of the last night, they seemed to him only as a bewildering dream. But with the return of darkness, and especially at the sight of the picture, the appari-ation again seemed to bim a reality, and he de terminea to ascertain . tne trutu. : rieadiDtr a headache he retired to his room, and, extin guiabing the candles, he called softly. "Fulmen! Fulmeul,, There was no answer. Again he called "Fulmeul . I lore you though dead." Immediately the candles were relit, and Fulmen again appeared. .She threw off ber wind- ing-sheet, and seated herself in a chair by bis side. Her face bad the cadaverous paleness of the tomb; eyes were sad; her steps alow and painful; yet her exqnidite beauty exerted the aame fascination over him as when sparkling witb life and vivacity. "Fulmen, I love you!" he repeated, gazing at her with admiration. "Yet if my hand ahouli touch yours," she replied with a sad smile, "you would ntter a cry, a you did last night; the dead are always cold." "Give me your band, and you . will see," said Ralph, extending resolutely bis own. She took it, and again there came over bim the same terrible sensation as before; but be bad self-control enough to conquer it, and again to repeat, "I love you!" ;. A bright smile illumined the features of Ful men. "My poor friend," she said, "I wonld gladly believe you; but if your lore would end my suf ferings, it must be so profound, so ardent, that it can conquer even desire to lira. A tomb witb me most hare attraction for you, and yoa are bnt twenty fire, Ralph. At your age life is sweet. The Earl shook bis bead. "To lire without you is death: to ba united to you, eren ia the tomb, would be life." "Take care, my friend." "Of what, dear FalmenT exclaimed Ralph, orer whom the smile of the young girl seemed to exercise aa overpowering fascination. "Do you know," she said, "that if you utter such a wish, God may bear your prayer?" ' "Ah, if be would! An eternity by jour side wonld be infinite happiness.1 . "Ralph, my friend," interrupted Fulaea, while a smile of celestial joy shone ia ber face, "take care; yoa will die if joa love me. -: "i wish to dia. - ' : Bnt joa are betrothed to tbj Ister." Aa axelamatioa of anger escaped tia. "I bate herf" ba said vthemenily. 1 "Becaosa aha Is aUre will joa: ? 4 ead What has sia done that 1 shou!l enjoy the Cht of tha tan, tha perfume Of Cowers, the mel. ody of birds. "I7aa sia aoj jonnjer cr mere beautiful?" -t . .V -"-":-' : "Ralcb. vou are arrnst. Uf .nZst L&S oo a -e - control over ber destiny cr oiue. '-r; r ; Yoa are rtbt, perbaps, tutI swear to you that I will never marry Ilerainia. I wkb to be yours, and only yours, fjrever" ' "Xou are mad, my friend; I Cii nil accept happiness at sud a sacriSca." ; ; She rose slowly, ; Cexminla aad pray tat tcfJ - ' " ' "Fulmeul Fulmen!" exclaimed Ralph f&HIcg on bis knees at ber feat, "Do not abandoa me I lore you?" "' "But your lore is death." " It is bappineaal It is lifer His tone was so touching that the young girl hesitated. '"' "Let me Sra eternally -with you," ha persisted. "Listen, my friend," she said at length, as she could no longer resist bis entreaties. "In this casket," pointing to a richly-carred box which stood on the table," there is a fial containing a dark liquid." " "And this liquid?" 1 "Is death!" "It is happiness!" exclaimed Ralph, seizing the casket. . ' . Fulmen stopped him by a gesture. "Not yet," she said; "by and by at midnight but first reflect! Immediately the candles were extinguished and Ralph found himself ia complete darkness. If Earl Ralph had been a Frenchman, as soon as Fulmen disappeared, be would hare opened the window and let the. cool night air play upon his brow. Then, the ferer - fit being over he would bare aaid to himself, "All this is folly. I am twenty-five years old, an ofScer in the King's service, and am about to marry a youne girb blooming as a Mado tna, fair aa a lily, who will bring be an income of a hundred thousand Ii-rres. I bare only to be quiet, and let things take their course." After which be would bare slept quietly, and dreamed no more of Fulmen. But Ralpb was a Scotchman, with an imagination as susceptible of exultation as most of bis countrymen of the land of mountain and mist. As -soon as the phantom vanished, be re-lighted the candle by the aid of a helfextinguished firebrand, and, opening the casket, he took out the rial. "Fulmen! Fulmen! wait for mel I'am com ing!" ba murmured, and swollowed the contents at a draught." - For a moment be experienced a strange and inexplicable sensation; a coldness In the chest, a beat ia the bead; then his eyes became beary; bis limbs trembled; aa extreme languor crept over bim, and be sank upon tbo floor, still mur muring faintly, "Fulmen . wait fcr me I love you . . When Ralpb swallowed the contents of the phial be expected to awake in the other worlds He was mistaken: tha phiaty eoataiaed oaly a aarcotic i aad ba was rery much .aatoniabad on opening bis eyes to find himself ia bed, and to sea the sun shining through the curtain windows. A lady eat by tha bedside. It was Fulmen! but uo longer tha pale, sad Fulmen, fresh, radiant ; joyous, ia the same cuetueoe which aba wore at the fancy balL The reader will understand the explanation of this more readily than the Earl, whose head was still somewhat confused from the effects of the narcotic. The young girl bad wished to put tha sudden passion" of ber ball room lorer to the test; and with some difficulty, she bad persuaded her fond old father and her cousin Herminie to lend themselves to the mystification. A little ingenuity, sdme invisible assistance, transparent glove of serpent skin, aided by the native super stition of the young Scotchman, were all that was necessary to the success of the scheme. We need not say that the Earl, when be recov ered his senses, was very glad to exchange his phantom bride for a living one. Cristiiuis FROSX A METHODIST. a "". ZIO&E TESTI1I0NY. ' " THE 80UTH AS BIEJT BT BXT. DR. BASCS. We cannot refrain from placing before our readers the following extracts from a letter of Rer. Dr. Bangs, a New York metbodist preach- er7bo is on a visit South, which we find ialhe Meihoditt, a truly christian newspaper ; V lOtriSlAHi COSTKRKKCB. Before I left New York, some of my friends expressed fears (though I had none myself,) that I might meet with bard usage at the South. But their fears were groundless. The Louisiana Conference assembled the week after my arrival. Bishop Early aad the preachers received me as a Christian minister and a Christian brother, and in every place, and by all the people with whom I associated, I was treated with as much kindness and warm-hearted friendship as ever before ia my life. The conference U smell- about aeraaty preachers, mostly yonng men, full of seal and activity. jSome bad to go seven" or eight hundred miles to their fields of labor, at aa expense of one or two hundred dollars, but they seemed to go to their work cbeerf nUy. A beautiful brick Methodist Episcopal church bas just been erected in Baton Rouge, it was dedi cated the babbata after our arrival. Rev. C K. Marshall of the Hississippt Conference, preached the dedicatory eermoo an eloquent and glori cus discourse it was, from the words "Worship God." They invited me to preacb in the even ing. I did the best I. could, with my bead roll ing and pitching lXs the sfcfp I bad jm'tleft.--Tboogb the members ef ilia cLarcb are eompa- tion, lie sua cf ZWlZi tzviri de&ayir the expense fcf iu creel;: v V.'tJ net tilt Bella for a feeble society ? yJv:'-..-.-:-- i,'..-.,-;. seeaed ta tire errlrE?, Lcrivrr, ia the season of dadics.:iocs..-,"Tl Vreiljisz'.za ciurcb ef this place waj consecrate J ca tie 17th, tt Ret. Dr,:Brec1dnrl!r. rreslieot, cf Oakland CoHe-e, -.llissisjjL H'.3 tcrmca eu2 prayer for the Union CI m no- I f.!t givisz a good tlelLcxJIsts ?- ac t:!i M: t3. Hearing that I wta.ia lown,-f ti&Tr.' ccacons " irsltsd upon c wUi Bf-II'.s reie:t that I wos'J preach far tieta ia tie evenia',- to lic!i I cLesrfUI'y cscseku'v Tta Lc; J LtTed cae to t-JU tie truth ia love the scrmoa w&a laud and Ian enough, to have beea a good one. Oa the after ,AdlaalUlpa,wai noon of the same Sabbath, I preached to the blacks in the llethodist Episcopal church. I enjoyed it much, and they seemed to feel "mighty" well, too before service closed they began to walk aroand and shake bands witb "old mas. sa." Some of them, I believe, thought "old masaa," did sot use big words enough, but talked to them too much as if they were little children. One of them , bad bia hymn book, started the tunes and closed with prayjer. ,. SLAVX&T. The relation of master and sTave has never, to my satisfaction, been proved a sia. That there are great e vile .connected with it, cr that may grow out of it, I have no doubt. So are there evils that may result from the marriage relation, or the relation of parent and child, bnt this does notprove the relatioa itself to be a sin. A great change has come over the political feeling both North and South, within the last twenty-five years. One extreme begets another. ' The extreme measures of the North npon this sub ject, bare driven the South into the opposite ex treme. Heretofore there were thousands at the South who considered slavery an evil, but a net ces8ary evil, which they knew not how to remove but now, so far as I could learn, they bare come to the conclusion that the "institution" is righ and scriptural, and the best state possible for the blacks. . I will not stop to argue the point at all, I merely state the fact. As to the physical Condition of the slaves at the South, I believe they are far better off than the free blacks of the-..Worth better fed, better clothed, better boused, and do less work. They appear the happiest set of people to be found their masters and mistresses have all the care and expense. I am told the laws of Louisiana an d Mississippi are very severe int prelecting the slave. The Methodists are doing a great work among them. Many missionaries are employed on the plantations some of them are paid by the planters themselves, some by the Missionary society and some congregations of blacks in New Orleans support themselres. I conversed with a brother preacher, who is constantly laboring among this people, and he gave ; a thrilling account of bis mission. The movements of the abolitionist of the North j have been productive of evil and only evil to the , matter and slaves; exasperating the former and causing them to restrict the privileges of the latter. Oh, when shall this wicked strife come to an end, and brotherly love and fraternal intercourse return ? . . . Let us give the South their just claims,' and let their institutions alone. Cease this uschrie tian strife there is a worse evil than slavery- brother warring against brother t I love my Southern brethren. There are as" Warm . and tree hearted christians here as any place on the face of the earth, and they are as honest in their view of things as we are. We must beware of rash judgment. God will Judge us all in the last day. Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for my church and my country I Shall I live to see this beautiful structure which mv father assisted to raise with his blood, scat tered to the winds ? I pray you, ye men. of strife and contention, stop bands off I I repeat, undo as far aa you can, the mischief yon, have already done. Aa long as I live will I pray for the peace of Jerusalem and the union of these United States ' O God, the Lot d of hosts arise and save thy heritage, for vain is the help of man. H. Basgs. FROM A PRESBYTERIAN. The Cause of our Perilous Troubles. The following we extract from an able appeal to Christians, North and South, written by Dr. Rice, an eminent Presbyterian divine of Chicago: . . ' . The perilous troubles mainly came of the new reasons for opposition to s'avery ihveoted by abolitionism ; out of the naw spirit created and diffused by the propagation of these reasons, and out of the apprehensions awakened in the South by the spread of these views and this spirit They have felt these reasons to be insulting to them they have found this spirit a malignant, an intermeddling, a dictatorial, a treacherous and dangerous spirit. They hare seen its pro gress among us at the North, destroying rever ence for divine and human law, separating chief friends, under the guise of extraordinary piety, entering churches and filling them with wrath and clamor, and all evil speaking and bitterness They have seen it entering the hails of Congress and inflaming every passion, and making the old terms of legislative intercourse and bearing impossible. -They have felt it in social inter course when they have come to visit the borne of their kindred, or for education or pleasure, in the bitter denunciation, of the stioging insult They have felt it in their own distant homes, ma kinjg be night anxious and the sacred castle of the citizen insecure. They have felt it in see log their attempts to do a manly and Christian part of their bojadmeb and dependants thwarted, they have been awakened to it by midnizht bur nings and slaughter. Tbey saw it ally itself with a great political party, and assOme to speak for and commit that party, and in the triumph of that party they thought they naw the triumph of this spirit cf abolition iam." They beard its shoots and jubilee at the result, and judged that a majority of . the people of the North bad ' installed an Administration to carry on the Gov eminent, and administer the Constitution in the interest aad sense of Abolition. If they are right ia this ja'ment of the causes and issues of the last Presidential election, it J$ perfectly useless to attempt to preserre theUcjon to try to prever.t the very last s!are State from f-1. lowing onUi CarcUca..' If thev are 'mLtatea ia tL&t j ai-iect, tbea tbe salvation cf tie Union depend upon theirletr ' t-eedilyecavinced'of tcir ra'stare tbat the great and triutnrbant psi ty wLich e!ected tia President did net vo!e 0-lUlon' when itej vote 1 fbr Ltae&Ia t1a.t ti ?j do cct raeaa'now t inU.l tia fIl e-trlt ia"the seat of Federal power. If a majority ef the cillzens of tha free States have beea really woa to Aboli- tionixm, the TJnioa Is impossible. If the Sontb are made to settle down into the belief that they are, the Uaioa cannot survive ft' year never be reconstructed after being now overthrown. No man who knows anything of the character and temper of the Soataarn people can for atant deny one ef these propositions." an u- Miljjfrit Confex)eratg. OVaTIOIV TO JEFF. DAVIS! No S tep3 Backwards ! The Cotton Confederacy to Stand, and no Compromise to bo Accepted. Inauguratioa of President Davis Inaa : gural Addreas. MoxTooMiaT, Feb. 1Y. The trip of Mr. Davis from Mississippi to Montgomery, was one eontinuons ovation. He made twenty-five speeches on the route, returning thanks end complimentary greetings to crowds of ladies and gentlemen and military, at the various depots. A committee ot Congress and the Montgomery authorities met Mr. Davis about 80 miles off, and formally received him. - Two fine military companies of Georgia,joined the escort at Apilika, and all reached Montgomery last night at 10 o'clock. He was received with great enthusiasm. A large crowd assembled at the depot, which was addressed aa follows: . ' " : He said be felt proud to receive the congratulations and hospitality of the people of Alabama. He briefly reviewed the present position of the South. He said that the time for compromise is passed end we are determined to maintain our position and make all who oppose ns smell South era powder, and feel Southern steeL If coercion was persisted ia be bad no doubt as to the result, we will maintain our rights of Government at all bazar a. We ask nothing, want nothing, and will have no complications.It other States join our Confederation, they can freely come on our terms. Our aepara' tion from the old Uaioa ia complete, no com promise, no reconstruction eaa bow be entertained. - A Urge crowd waited on Mr Davis oa bis arrival at the Exchange HoteL The ladies were equally enthnsiastie with the gentlemen. At a quarter before eleven at enthusiastic calls, Mr. Davis appeared oa the balcony and said t Fellow Citizens, and Brethren of the Confederate States of America, for now we are brethren aot ia aame merely but ia fact, men of one flesh, one bone, one interest one purpoae, and of one ideality of domestic institutions. We have hence, I trust, the prospect cf living together ia peace witb our institutions, subject to protection not defamation, It may be our career will be ushered in, ia the midst of storms ; it may be that as this moraing opened witb- cloods, mist and rain, we shall have to encounter inconveniences at the beginning, bnt as the sun rose it lifted the mist and dissipated the clouds, nod left the pure sub. lighs of beeves : ao will the progress of the Southern Confederacy carry us safe into the harbor of Constitutional liberty, (Applause) and po Iitical equality. (Applause.)" Taea- we bare nothing to fear at borne, because at home we have a bomogenity. We wilt bare nothing to fear abroad, because, if war should come, if we must again baptise in blood-the principles for which our fathers bled in the revolution, we shall show that we are not degenerate sons, but will redeem the pledge they gave, preserve the sacred rights they transmitted to ns, and show that Southern valor still shines as bright as in '76 '12, and in every other conflict ( Applause.) I was informed my friends, that your kindness only required I should appear before you, fatigued by travel, and hoarse, I am unable to speak at at any length, and came merely to assure you of my gratitude for these manifestations of your ood win. I come with diffidence and distrust to the discharge of the great duties devolved on me by the kindness and confidence of the Congress of the Confederate States. I thank yon friends for the manifestations of favor and approbation yoa exhibit on this occasion. Moxtoomet, Feb. 18. The inaugural ceremonies to-day were the grandest pageant ever witnessed in the South. There was an immense crowd on Capital Hill, consisting of a great array of the beauty military and citizens of the different States. Mr. Daris commenced -precisely at 1 o'elock. He said, gentlemen of the Congress of the Confederated States of America, friends and fellow citizens : Called to the difficult and responsible station of Chief Executive of the Provisional Government which yoa have instituted , I approach the discharge of the daties assigned me with an humble distrust of my abilities, but with a sustaining confidence in the wisdom of those who are to guide and aid me in the adminiatra-tion of public affaire, and an abiding faith in the virtue and patriotism of the people, looking for-ward to the speedy establishment of a permanent government to take the place of this and which by its greater moral and physical power, will be better able to eombat with the many difficulties which arise from the conflicting interests of separate nations.- - I enter upon the duties of the office to which I have been chosen, with the hope that the beginning of our career as a Confederacy may not be obstructed by hostile opposition to our enjoy ment of the separate existence and independence which, with the blessing of povidenee we bare asserted, and which with the blessing of Prjrt-deaee we intend to maintain oor present condition, achieved ia a manner unprecedented in the history of Nation, illustrates the American idea that governments rest upon the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter and abolish governments, whenever they become destructive to the ends for which they were established. , The declared compact of the Union from which we have withdrawn, was to establish justice, in-sere domestic traocility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare and secure the bleaainpa of liberty to ourselves and our posterity and when ia judgment of the sovereign States now comprising this Confederacy, it has beea perverted from the purposes for which It was ordained, aad ceases to answer the ends for which ' it was' established." a peaceful appeal to the ballot box declared, that, so far as tbey were concerned, the government created by that earn pact should cease to exist Is tLia thej Br!y asserted tie risLt which tie Declaration of Independence . cf 1773, defined to te inalienable ; of the time aud c cation of its exercise, they aa sovereigns were the final judges, each for itself. The i partial, enlhtened verdict cf mankind, will vindicate tLa rectitude cf our eendoct. and Ha who knows the hearts cf men -iH ju?-e cf the siacerity wUb vLk!i Utored to preserve ihm eov-mcnett cf ear fi'tra iaits apnt The rM aoTerwo! rrocl-ucsed at the lirti c" the'CieteVand w hit it bas teen sOmed ,r " ! r armea ia ise oiu ui - "--- qoest?y admitted into the Lmon ot lt.J, nowe-niably reeernlzesia the people the powsr to resume the aulhoxity delegated for tie purpose cf government Thus tha eoveraga Ctatst lere represented proeeeaea to tona uia VJon: 'rry, . aaid it is by the abuse of largnage tltt tieir act baa been denominated revolution. TLcv farmed a sew alliance but witbia each u.U its government bas retained the rights of person and p- perty. The agent through whom ILey eocmu nic&tjkd witb fnmtirn nations ia thar .d. bet ifia does not necessarily interrupt their international relations, bustained by the consciousness tat the transition from the former Union to the present Confederacy, has not proceeded from a die regard on our part ot our just obligations or any failure to perform every constitutional duty, moved bv no interest or naaaion to invade tha rights of others, we are anxious to culuvale peace and commerce with all nations. If we may not hope to avoid war, we may at least expect that posterity will acqait us of hat ing needlessly engaged in it. Doubly just justi wanton aggression on the part of others, there can be no cause to doubt the courage and patriotism of the people of the Confederate Ltatea will be found equal to ey measures of defence which soon their security mey require. An agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace and the first which our necessitie will permit- It is alike our interest and that of aU those from . whom we would buy, that there should L tie fewest practicable"restrictione upon the inter change of commodities. There eaa be tct kula rivalry between us, and any manufacturlcg or navigating community such as the free States of the American Union, it must therefore fwllow therefrom that mutual interests would invite good will and kind offices; if, however, passion or lust of dominion . should cloud the judgment or in flame the ambition of those 8 tales, we mustprav pare to meet the emergency and maintain by the final arbitrament of the sword the new position we have assumed among the nations ox lie : earth. We have entered upon, a career of Independence which must be inflexibly pursued throng V many years of controversy, but our late associates the Northern States, may vainly endeavor to secure tranquility and obtain respect fcr tLa - rights to which we were eotitled as a aecescl'r, not a choice. We have resorted to the teat.tr ' of a separation, and henceforth our energies otst be directed to the consideration of oar own af fairs and tha perpetuity cf the Confederacy we have formed. . If a just perceptioa of mutual interests shall permit as peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will bare been fultlJed ; but if this be Cec.3 ca and the integrity of our territory and j urisUoa ba assailed, it will but remain for as, wub ra rev solve to appeal to arms aad Invoke the t.ecur? of Providence oa a just cause. - As a eonqsence of our new condition and with a view to ceel anticipated wants, it will be necessvry to rroviie a speedy and efficient organization cf tie trrzei. ee At the executive eepartment. Having special charge of foreign intsrconr;3, finance, military afTairs and posts! frvi:fsf.r purposes of defeace, the Confeder&te L.i'.:ic:y under ordinary circumstances rely mais.! tca their militia, but it is deemed- advisable ia tie present condition of alairs, that there te a well ioa true ted and disciplined army, more en-meroos than would usually be required oa a peace establishment , . , ,17117. Sumter fijioull 27ot be Attacisi Judge Lonsstreet in a communication ia tie Columbia Guardian, defeeda Governor Pickena for not ordering an attack on Fort Sans ter, contrary to the clamor ringing throughout Charles ton and tha fitatn Brrini it. Tlia jRrmik. that he would not order an attack though all the people of South Carolina demanded it .The following are bis reasons:- Because every day ie weakening the fort, and strengthening our Dover over it; because nothing can be .lost by delaj up-to within eight or ten days before Lincoln's in-auguration; because I don't wish to give the submissionists of the South an apology for their fears; because I am sure every one of the seceding States would oppose the attack, not because it woold be wrong, but because it would embarrass their operations; because it would give Abolitionists at the North power orer our friends in mas quarter; Decease 1 Deiieve, as soon as I be Southern Confederacy is formed, the furls will be delivered ap without bloodshed; because I am now sure no reinforcements will be sent to Fort Sumter, and if there should be, we could siskr them before they could reach the fort; bec&nse I would bare South Carolina exchange riews now with her sister seceding States before she taken any step which must involve their interests be-oause I would consider the possession of the fort just now a burden rather than a benefit. Tbua would 1 act with mr aim lighte. Proposed Division of the State of Texar., , The western and northwestern portions of the State of Texas; are overwhelmingly ia faror. of the Union, while the eastern section, from its proximity to Louisiana, is somewhat under the inflaenca of tha latter Slate. "Aa an strident tit the conservative character of western Texas, it is only necessary to - state that at aa election held in Travis county, ia the middle of January-the Union candidate for member of the Assembly was elected by two hundred and tw!. ma jority. Travis county is oa the Colorado rlfcr. and its county town is Austin, the Capittil cf tie State. - It is suggested here that bow is the pro- nar 1 1 ma mwiA ftViaa rvs'aaLeV rt I sun rtmsUn si rr .-'" of public sentiment ia Teaas aCTorda the rrc-r accasioa for a division ef the State unertLe stipulation ef the act ef annexation. . . V'eatens Texas would make a fine State, and a faithful Uo ion-loving member of the Confederac", situ a- : ted directly oa the liexicaa border, and a t'a witn tne l-edaraJ torce - already there to prptsct the frontier, to defend aad luntu tcmlf a 15 tit the entire South. ' - - " - " - r A. Terrible Tragedy. , A terrible tragedy occurred ia this city L ?t night A party of five Overland ilail aci Li. lie ire ae m . t a- ivock xaca crivers, eutereo toe erocery c,a German named Cagge, and com coenced c - :u ; : 1-l'n,. Pistols were drawa on both sl-.irtle barkeeper named. Butcher was shot tarcr tearTand died instantly. Hegre rrz shot ia lie forehead, and died at 8 cc 1 -a rti a Three of the drirera, George Uru . Its end Poey Farmer, are Bndr er.. guarded by a company of Unitary. TL mornin 1 and tLr two esoaped. - Intense excitement emeriti c'.'zts, : Tb prisoners ere bow ooder-r-i- tna.1 te.-r theUajor. TLey .will c-dccludl ts Lir;-4. to-day. .r - . - - ' roar Cxtth," Arfc. TI. I- As tie U'rl crt!:e pnso-ers fcr the rscr.'crff Ha?r;earid T-'cler vas drs-ir? to a 3 -- terdsy, a R'b cnt;rt3 tie J-'-.-e's c .... r. I den and ed tLa risoners F-r t'-a fcur; : :: t f lj ".- m; He -a. - Ce cf lie'pnsoners .i:.- : : -7-. Fare t r, trr.-.e L-oai en aloiy sJ r" e--- - lie watCrd e-on e-iir..--- - fr cr-wd secured tbe re-'.io'- 7 : ; : ci&Ja l-r a p'ace cf execiiiicn. I t . .. - ing at their des:gne tbo aa.Lt " " ;. .r ' and secured te prisoners and 1; i 1 Crrenwood jaiL. TLe excitesxest is '..